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Edited on Wed Jun-25-08 03:31 PM by OurVotesCount-Ohio
Every year we have robins build their nest in a small maple tree. Nearly every year, the nest would blow down or the birds would fall out. I can always tell when their kids made it, because the baby would eventually leave the nest, usually unable to fly, only able to hop around and hide under the evergreens. One baby made it this year, we still see him around. He's lost that fuzz feather on his head and has finally grown some tail feathers.
I even fed one once..it was sitting on the garden fence and I was pulling weeds. I found a worm..it was sitting there with its mouth open so I dropped it in. Tee hee..it clamped down on my finger and scared me to death.
The one thing we do is remove any nesting material from our light fixtures. After a couple years of sparrow's attempts to build nests and lose their eggs on our garage light fixtures, we began taking down the nesting materials as soon as they put it up. Now they've moved to a large arborvitae to nest.
It's hard seeing the tiny ones die.
:hug:
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